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Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:14AM (#49954109)
It's all either porn or self-help slop
Quite a few of them look off on mobile, they either have no edge margins at all or they're too large and force the user to scroll horizontally
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#49925175)
My guess is that it's less about the architecture and more about the blast radius and the number of users
Re:Polishing Cloth Updated on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:04AM (#49520339)
there are no nano-texture display devices that fit in a reasonably sized pocket
They could give more funding to SailfishOS, for example
Re:Has the New Cocaine Arrived? on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:33AM (#49144558)
It arrived at least 6 years ago, at least in Europe. Before the fairly recent ban you could get it delivered to your mailbox from a website
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:42AM (#49122387)
Hamburger menu is not a good UX abstraction, that's why the mass usage stage of it was pretty short lived and most people are leaving it for more obvious patterns, like tab bars
It's interesting that you bring up Netflix. While their initial offering of having a good selection of movies in one subscription was very attractive, their expansion and eventual entry to public stock market caused it to be pretty much synonymous with "slop" in TV and movie circles, which I think makes a very good case that "big production studio" != "good quality productions".

Warner Bros specifically, while still a very large studio, has been relatively generous with funding more risky movies, and there is a lot of warranted caution that this consolidation is going to result in streamlining everything into taking as few risks as possible and aiming for broadest appeal and highest possible gross margins, which is a terrible thing for anything that could be considered art.

> Who cares?

People who like movies, presumably

> A visa allows you entry

That's incorrect, holding a B1/B2 US visa only allows you to arrive at the port of entry, the actual permission to enter the country is always left to the border officer interviewing you

> Beiermeister started at OpenAI in mid-2024 as a part of a wave of hires from Meta who viewed themselves as trying to change tech companies from the inside

Looks like that's not really effective, even if you're at the executive level

Pretty sure this doesn't remove Activation Lock so it shouldn't make a difference
Re:Why do people drop litter? on Saturday June 08, 2024 @05:45PM (#40620376)
> Is someone more likely to drop litter if there’s already lots or less litter already around, I wonder?

That's definitely a big factor, there's a whole theory on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It seems like people are less likely to litter in clean places

Re:Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness on Saturday May 04, 2024 @04:56AM (#40256034)
yes those are obviously the same, after all lions are known for running industrial-scale farms where they force millions of gazelles to procreate and then keep them in tiny cages for the entirety of their short lives so that other lions can conveniently buy prepackaged gazelle meat in a supermarket not even having to ever associate the pack of meat with a once living gazelle
Re:Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:08AM (#38516776)
> Not Apple

They're definitely moving in that direction https://searchads.apple.com/

> Microsoft

It's not a huge part of their revenue but they definitely make a sizeable amount of money from ads

They still should be way cheaper if you don’t care about the seats and/or only have hand luggage
Considering the importance of the negotiations for Apollo’s developer he could have considered hiring a middleman for the call, that would probably have prevented some misunderstandings
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:10AM (#36253943)
but there’s no incentive for Reddit to pay any money, they either start charging for the API and recoup the costs or the app shuts down and it starts costing Reddit absolutely nothing